18 Blowing the Gates

"If you say so."

Dageer wouldn't ever see a clone get hurt or killed without doing anything, but that didn't mean that he was a close friend of Delta Squad. The way that Fixer talked about Hell Squad on the meeting had annoyed him quite a bit. Although it wasn't Boss who did it, he as the squad leader had to take responsibility for what his men said, the same way Dageer had with Hell Squad.

Apart from that the invasion proceed as normal as an invasion can. They still lost a lot of troopers, but the jedi were giving a beating on the geonosians. Dageer risked to say that each jedi was equal to a hundred men on combat ability alone, but their powers made them worth a lot more.

Towers were falling from time to time, the LR1K Sonic Cannons on them given quite a headache to the clones. Since Dageer was in the middle of the action he couldn't see all, but from what was happening around him he calculated that the clone army have suffered a thousand or so casualties, between dead and wounded.

It took the clones half an hour to advance two hundred more meters. It was at that time that the droids second defense line came into action. On the factory dozens of what before looked like mud walls broke down to show more LR1Ks.

They all pointed to the frontlines of the clone force, and fired their green and deadly halos. An entire section of clones was thrown in the air, and amidst them was a jedi.

The deafening noise of the explosions, screams and shots being fired enclosed the whole battlefield. Dageer could see the LR1Ks recharging. In a few seconds they would fire another time.

"Dab!!!"

"On it sir!"

Dab dropped to the ground, using a geonosian body to support his DC-15x. Cell laid on the ground next to him, and adjusted his binoculars.

"296 meters. 37 degrees."

Dab adjusted his aim, took a deep breath and squeezed the trigger.

One of the LR1K had its gunner shot down. However, another geonosian quickly moved up to take his position. Suddenly one of the other LR1K exploded. Sev voice came from their left.

"Aim for their ammunition stock brother."

Following Sev tip, Dab fired again, getting an explosion as reward. Before long the other snipers on the battlefield learned the trick, and in a few minutes all the LR1Ks were gone.

Tharrg probably wasn't expecting his cannons to be destroyed so fast, as the was no response from his side for some time. Seeing that the battle has calmed down, General Windu came to Dageer position.

"Dageer, Boss, now is the time. Go!"

"Delta Squad, lets go!"

"Brain, Hell Squad, come on!"

Both squads raced the last few hundred meters to the gate with almost no opposition. As soon as they got to the big gate Fixer went to the panel and started messing with it. Boss and the rest of his squad took position around Fixer, in case anyone tried to stop him.

Dageer ordered Hell Squad to do the same, but nothing came. Boss was starting to get impatient.

"Come on Fixer! It is taking to much time!"

"It's not my fault! It will take time. Better let Scorch do it."

"Scorch you are up."

Scorch and Fixer changed positions. From his backpack Scorch took out handful of thermal detonators. He placed them around a smaller door on the left gate.

"Everyone get away! Haha!"

Scorch made it sound like it would be a good explosion, but in reality it just made a muffled sound. The gate fell to the inside, revealing a group of surprised droids. Before they could react, Scorch, the closest to the gate, activated another detonator and throwed it in.

"Hahaha, now the fun begins!"